{"id":19130,"date":"2021-04-14T19:07:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T19:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/?p=19130"},"modified":"2021-04-14T19:08:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T19:08:07","slug":"nvidia-gpu-passthrough-to-windows-vm-from-linux-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/nvidia-gpu-passthrough-to-windows-vm-from-linux-host\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia GPU Passthrough To Windows VM From Linux Host"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In other words, this effectively means it&#8217;s possible to run a Linux machine and then run a virtual Windows machine within it, and hand that unfettered access to a graphics card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a big win for those wanting <a href=\"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/with-proton-many-windows-games-now-work-on-linux\/\">to run Windows games<\/a> from within a virtual machine on your Linux desktop. They will be able to play Windows-based games using a virtual machine with GPU passthrough enabled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GeForce desktop graphics cards that are based on the Kepler, Maxwell or Pascal architectures or newer will be able to take advantage of GPU passthrough when running a virtual machine on Windows.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-nvidia-geforce-gpu-passthrough-limitations\">Nvidia GeForce GPU Passthrough limitations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to start using GeForce GPU Passthrough on your system, you\u2019ll need to ensure that you have the&nbsp;<strong>R465 driver<\/strong>&nbsp;installed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GeForce GPU passthrough <strong>supports only 1 virtual machine<\/strong>. If you want to enable multiple virtual machines to have direct access to a single GPU or want the GPU to be able to assign virtual functions to multiple virtual machines, you will need to use NVIDIA Tesla, Quadro, or RTX enterprise GPUs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You can&#8217;t leverage the same GPU being used by the host OS for virtualization.<\/strong> One GPU is required for the Linux host OS and one GPU is required for the Windows virtual machine. In other words, you will need 2 GPUs: 1 for Linux host, and 1 being passed through to Windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia has now officially enabled GPU passthrough support for Windows virtual machines on GeForce graphics cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[1353,3494,973],"class_list":["post-19130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","category-news","tag-games","tag-nvidia","tag-windows"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}